Chelle Destefano
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Multidisciplinary artist Melbourne, Australia

Exhibitions / Projects / Performances

Current

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Upcoming
Field of Sound Visualisations, Live performance and art exhibition, Temperance Hall, South Melbourne. More details to come soon.

Flow Festival exhibition, Deaf arts festival, Melbourne. September, 2023. More information coming on this.
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Safe Space dance gestural performance - date and time TBA

July 2023 or 2024 (TBA/postponed til advised as per government regulations) - Arts Residency Exhibition, in Siena, Italy. Showcasing works created from the residency during June, at the Siena Arts Institute, in Siena, Italy.

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Past Exhbitions
What I Wish I'd Told You major Deaf exhibition in collaboration with Claire Bridge, 2nd iteration at Wodonga Hyphen Gallery Space, opening 17th September. More details to come.

What I Wish I'd Told You major Deaf exhibition in collaboration with Claire Bridge, opening 23rd July at 3 pm at Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, Footscray. 
Book your free tickets at this link.

Featured in Nina Sanadze's "Living Room" project where I was interviewed and my interview is shown in a few places online but the main link is at https://ninasanadze.com/selectedprojects/living-room/?fbclid=IwAR3zgbOKIHQwrsNb1ItP3NM5IVFSieXmwuWvQftfZFob7m0dDI92kqxdhk0​ ninasanadze.com/selectedprojects/living-room/?fbclid=IwAR3zgbOKIHQwrsNb1ItP3NM5IVFSieXmwuWvQftfZFob7m0dDI92kqxdhk0

Jan - Feb 2022 - QueerTech IO as part of Midsummer Festival 2022
https://queertech.io/artworks/

​February 2022 - Opening night 4th February 6 pm. Finalist exhibition for the Banyule Art Award for Works on Paper, Art Gallery 275 @ Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub, 275 Upper Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe, VIC.

March 2022 - Dora McRae exhibition - Drawing and Mark making art exhibition, opening 10th March at 6 pm in the Octagon stables at Melbourne Uni, on 30 Dodds St, Southbank.

November-December - Graduation Exhibition for VCA Masters of Contemporary Art, Melbourne University

September - Written work shown in an online publication with Arts Access Australia here -
https://www.meetingplaceforum.org/writing-place/writing-place-2021/​

April - Aug  2021 - Public artwork on display at the metro tunnel development area near the city baths on 420 Swanston St, among 9 other great artists for Melbourne Midsumma festival and the exhibiton is Memory Lane.

May 2021 - Footscray Art Prize, finalist exhibition, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Footscray, Melbourne

​April 2021 - 'Listen' by Chelle Destefano in the Housewarming curated exhibition program by Arts House, North Melbourne. Showing until 18th April, 2021

December - Lake Art Award finalist exhibition, Lake Macquarie, NSW (WINNER)

November - Noel Counihan's Commemorative Art Award finalist exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne

October 2020 - Fisher's Ghost Award finalist exhibition, Campbelltown, NSW

August 2020 - Zero exhibition at CoVA, by Melbourne University - 
https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/cova/research/feminism-and-intersectionality/assembly-point/zero-oclock​

​August - November 2020 - Finalist Exhibition for the Incinerator Art Award: Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley, Melbourne

August 2020 - Masters Exhibition for Contemporary Art, VCA, Melb Uni, Online instagram (more details soon), Melbourne

January-March 2020 - Deaf Culture I, a solo of Chelle Destefano's sculpture work on Deaf language will be shown at the Incinerator Gallery in Moonee Valley at 180 Holmes Road, Aberfeldie VIC 3040.
Opening night 24 January, 2020 at 6 pm.

January 2020 - Midsumma Aust Post Art Prize Finalist exhibition, opening night 28th January 6 pm, at No Vacancy Gallery, 34-40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000

Nov-Dec 2019 - Finalist Exhibition at Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne for the Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award

December 2019 - Axiom: A Reimagined Reality exhibition of 50 artists with disabilities, in celebration of International Day of People with Disability from Tuesday 3 December until Friday 6 December at the SpACE@Collins gallery, Level 1, 278 Collins Street, Melbourne. Exhibition opening night 3rd December, 6 pm to 8 pm.
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Sept 2019 - Spatial Movements of Auslan performance and exhibition, Melbourne Fringe Festival, at Brunswick Mechanics Institute on Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria

Nov 2019 - Finalist Exhibition for the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize. Opening night on 1st November at the Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD

August-October 2019 - Finalist Exhibition for the Banyule Art Prize, Auslan Movement sculptures will be featured in the exhibition. Opening night 28th August, at Hatch Contemporary Artspace, 14 Ivanhoe Parade, Ivanhoe VIC 3079. Time: 6 pm to 8 pm.

4th March to 1st April 2019 - Wonthaggi ArtSpace featuring the new abstract series of the Busfires 2009, sponsored by Regional Arts Victoria
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23 - 25 November  2018 - Flow Festival, The Cot Story features

16 November - 25 November 2018 - Solo art exhibition at FernArtz Gallery, Coburg, Melbourne. Featuring all my new works from the residencies and titled "Baby Moon Stories"


20 September - Fringe Festival Solo Exhibition of 'The Cot' story, about what happened to me when I was attacked and made pregnant and then miscarried

2 - 5 August 2018 - Exhibition at Other Art Fair, Melbourne. Located at The Facility, Rear of 2 Chelmsford Street, Kensington, VIC, 3031.
Opening night will be on 2nd August, 6 pm onwards. I will be at my exhibition space booth all the time between the 2nd and 5th so come and visit me and check out my artworks

14 May - 20 July 2018 - Blue Ghosts and Vintages works organised by Arts Access Victoria in The Skin & Cancer Foundation, Skin care clinic at level 1/80 Drummond St, Carlton VIC 3053

January - Current 2018 - Wonthaggi Artspace Gallery, Wonthaggi, Victoria

22 - 25 March 2018 - The Other Fair, Sydney, Australia. Technology Park
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January 2018 - Mornington Art Show, Mornington, Victoria, Australia

November 2017 - MusaArt International Art Prize Show, Vatican city, Rome, Italy

October 2017 - Aus-Berlin Art Exchange workshops and exhibitions with Arts Access Australia, Berlin, Germany

August 2017 - SALA exhibition in Dulwich Bakery, Dulwich, South Australia

November 2016 - Solo exhibition, One Chapter Pub, Bath, UK

October 2016 - Solo exhibition, Metonoia Galerie, Paris, France

May 2016 - Wait of the World solo exhibition, Gasworks, Melbourne, Australia

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